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OpenSCAD is often said to be for programmers, but in some ways it's more for mathematicians. If you know the formula/code for the object, you can calculate the
by RobotToaster 2y ago
OpenSCAD is often said to be for programmers, but in some ways it's more for mathematicians. If you know the formula/code for the object, you can calculate the bounding box, but that isn't a way most programmers are used to thinking.
- rlpb 2y agoI can calculate the bounding box, or indeed the exact position and orientation of some surface I want to add to, but that’s tedious and so I don’t want to. It’s like programming without higher level language constructs. Yes, lower level languages are still Turing-complete so can technically do everything. But the necessary housekeeping distracts from the real problem I’m trying to solve.